— Pride and Prejudice
Quotes About Integrity
Ayn Rand gave integrity its shortest definition: the ability to stand by an idea. Andre Gide located it inside, advising readers to be faithful to that which exists within themselves. Socrates set the bar higher, holding that the really important thing is not to live but to live well, and that living well means living honourably or rightly.
Douglas Adams tied integrity to service, saying real service needs something that cannot be bought or measured with money: sincerity and integrity. Joe Biden called integrity the minimum ante for anyone who wants to do politics the right way. Benjamin Franklin offered a test of a whole life, to write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. William James warned that a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Douglas Adams tied integrity to service, saying real service needs something that cannot be bought or measured with money: sincerity and integrity. Joe Biden called integrity the minimum ante for anyone who wants to do politics the right way. Benjamin Franklin offered a test of a whole life, to write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. William James warned that a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
— Meditations
She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.
— The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.
— The Analects
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
— Tao Te Ching
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
— The Count of Monte Cristo
...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...
— Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.
— Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
— The Merchant of Venice
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
— An Ideal Husband
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
— The Will to Power
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
— The Diary of Adam and Eve
How good life is when one does something good and just!
— The Brothers Karamazov